Maybe they will partner up with some of the medical clinics in the US, and maybe there will be a couple more in some countries in europe, but that's definitely not a worldwide feature that every Apple user would enjoy.
Investing that much time in such a specific app for such a low number of users is a weird direction for Apple...
Maybe they will partner up with some of the medical clinics in the US, and maybe there will be a couple more in some countries in europe,
So health, fitness, and nutrition is only an issue for a small number of people in the world? What?
Actually, I doubt that it works in Europe. That whole thing seems very US-centric to me, because the American clinic system doesn't really exist in Europe to that same extent (or at least not in the parts of Europe that I know). Most physicians in Europe have their own offices and are not affiliated with hospitals or work in clinics or medical centers. If you need a specialist, you usually pick one yourself, and they have no direct connection to your primary physician, so this whole system of gathering and correlating data in one central place for each patient somehow does not work, and I doubt that physicians will invest into the necessary infrastructure.
I'll get suspicious when Tim says, "we're doing this so we can serve man."Wait it's all coming together now, Apple with their hardware and software in the whole world's pocket, tight controlled integration, locked on to body monitoring, The Space Ship campus...
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Apple are going to announce that Earth is going to be taken over by an alien race...
We are all doomed.
Actually, I doubt that it works in Europe. That whole thing seems very US-centric to me, because the American clinic system doesn't really exist in Europe to that same extent (or at least not in the parts of Europe that I know). Most physicians in Europe have their own offices and are not affiliated with hospitals or work in clinics or medical centers. If you need a specialist, you usually pick one yourself, and they have no direct connection to your primary physician, so this whole system of gathering and correlating data in one central place for each patient somehow does not work, and I doubt that physicians will invest into the necessary infrastructure.
If Apple seriously think that this can be incorporated into mainstream healthcare any time soon I hope they bargained for the FDAs terminally slow regulatory processes...
Or the head of the Special Projects group and others have been meeting them - and the developer rules for Healthkit has been confirmed to be ok for that.
See app store review guidelines 27.
I see absolutely no reason why individual doctors wouldn't be able to use health data collected in a centralized place on your phone.
Also, with HIPPA rules, they better be absolutely sure that the data, once entered has protections on it, or the lawyers are going to have a field day with this.
27.1 Apps using the HealthKit framework must comply with applicable law for each Territory in which the App is made available, as well as Sections 3.3.28 and 3.3.39 of the iOS Developer Program License Agreement
27.4 Apps may not use user data gathered from the HealthKit API for advertising or other use-based data mining purposes other than improving health, medical, and fitness management, or for the purpose of medical research
27.7 Apps using the HealthKit framework must provide a privacy policy or they will be rejected
27.8 Apps that provide diagnoses, treatment advice, or control hardware designed to diagnose or treat medical conditions that do not provide written regulatory approval upon request will be rejected
So strange that the Mayo Clinic disagrees and some of the folk names from WWDC will be up on stage proving otherwise.
Everyone can take what they want from Healthkit, or leave it be and use other features. Having worked in part with telehealth - this is a huge step forward.
So health, fitness, and nutrition is only an issue for a small number of people in the world? What?
People keep talking about sleep monitoring with this device. But if you wear it while you're sleeping, when else are you going to charge it? Unless it's got removable batteries (which would be very un-Apple like and inconvenient), I don't see how that's going to work.
Health app could be useful in providing doctors with more diversified info. Everything depends on what info the new IPhone is capable of providing
Oh, but they do. The baby boomers are reaching retirement age.
Which population is most in need of medical care, which population has the most money, which population will go out of their way to remain healthy?
As an athlete that tracks everything from my training, sleep, diet, hydration among others I'm excited about the possibilities here - especially with a tie in to an apple and or third party sports watch.
So FB and Twitter? Probably some fitness apps like Runkeeper? Some kind of major development from a medical org like Mayo?
Yeah, Im pretty stoked too.![]()
So health, fitness, and nutrition is only an issue for a small number of people in the world? What?
I agree with your point, but you might have missed the sarcasm of the post you quoted.
Jesus Christ... White and sky-blue text on light green background... What the.. are they smoking?